Sucky Night

Every so often my body feels the need to remind me that I am not the healthiest of people.  Last night was one of those times.  I've going on about allergies lately & the awfulness of those things, but it can escalate & it did.  

Since last Thursday I've been dealing with annoying post nasal drip & allergy issues.  Saturday found me feeling none too well, but I thought all I needed was a good night's sleep.  Then a little thing that I like to call the "Time Change" happened & stole an hour of my precious sleep.  So Sunday, I drudge around like the living dead.  Again I thought if I can get a good night's sleep I'll get through this.

Hah, allergies & post nasal drip conspired with crappy weather & I woke up in the middle of the night vacillating between a shaky feverish blur to a chilly chattering mess with a severe case of the shivers.  Not to be outdone my throat decides it needs to send me into a series of coughing fits.  There goes my good night's sleep.

This morning found me at Walmart doing shopping I really didn't feel up to, but reasoned I might feel worse the next day.  My crappy physical health was assaulted by Walmart's most uninviting atmosphere of blazing white & the annoyance of socially retarded shoppers.  Sorry, if that term isn't PC but it is the most apt descriptor of those people I can use without breaking out into a stream of cuss words & various other unwelcome epithets. 

At least that is done & hopefully I can get to the business of getting past this crappy health spell I'm in at the moment.  I hope you find yourselves doing well & in good health.

PND

For a few days now I have been dealing the problems brought my allergens in my area.  Now I can take my allergy pills & they help quite a bit.  I can even use allergy eye drops.  Still there is one thing that these medicines do little for & that is post nasal drip. 

Take all the meds you want & drink water to you overfloweth & it still won't get rid of PND.  You're stuck drinking hot tea & sucking on cough drops or hard candies trying to get this crap out of your throat.

You can cough & hack but nothing budges.  You feel like you're about to drown in these nasal secretions.  You can't swallow or breathe very well.  Some people use nettie pots, I'm not that brave & I hate nasal sprays.  They do horrible things to my nose & throat.

So what's left?  Not much, except to tough it out & to try control your allergies.  Good luck with that.  I'm not alone in this either.  My roomie has allergy issues & so do our cats.  

Neither cats nor people with allergies are pretty.  The cats are prone to eye drainage & successions of rapid fire sneezes & utter blahs notable even for a cat.

So, here is to all those hateful little spores & pollen particles that cause allergies, going straight to hell where they can spread there specific kind of misery.  I know the pollen is needed to make plants grow.   But you'd think the plants could be a little more considerate & make their pollen hypoallergenic.

Somewhat Of A Dud

I shop on Mondays.  For some reason the hell known as Walmart was busy today.  Nothing really worth mentioning occurred other than the normal annoyances of dealing with wally world.  I'm glad there wasn't much of anything else.  Allergies are back in full swing.  I'm already sick of trees & all their sexual release being spewed out into the air to cover us all in their attempts to procreate.

Cedars, Maples & Junipers have all declared this over-sexualized war on the world leaving it covered in this sticky yellow-green dusting of spores.  Like it or not all pollen is plant spunk & nothing more.  It covers the car & the porch with a nasty layer of reproductive byproducts.

Spring may be pretty with all it's flowers & showy birds, but the season is for one thing & one thing only, sex.  First you get hit with all the genetic material & then a little while later you're stuck dealing with the offspring or whatever....



After the world has covered you in the precursors of plant life, it scatters its babies into the air to land wherever they might.  They land in your car, your yard or even in your mouth as you inhale.  All in all spring is a NC-17 season.  Let's move onto to summer where all we have to deal with is idiots giving themselves melanoma.

Pseudo Spring Hell

Sneezing, Drainage, Coughing, Itchy Eyes, Pressure.  It's a mantra for allergens.  All those little spores of pollen going through the air cause their victims to live in a histamine hell.  The problem is that I know it will get worse, much worse, before it gets better.  For me allergies lead to meds (once the allergens are bad enough), which causes my sinuses to become dried out, which leads to nosebleeds.  Nosebleeds are not a good thing for a + person.  So, I back off the allergy meds for a bit & let my sinuses get better, but dealing with the allergy issues.  Then I start the whole process over again.

I could put a lot of video clips here of sneezing kittens or puppies with eye drainage, but right now I think that might lead to a karmatic back lash at me & give my allergy symptoms a boost.  I'll drink my tea & rub my cats' ears so they can get a little relief from their own allergy issues.  My roomie isn't doing any better, but she can rub her own ears.

For those of you who do not suffer from allergies, count your blessings.  For those of you familiar with this hell, my condolences.  May the damned trees, grass & what the hell ever else throws out pollen or spores get their nasty business over quickly.

Ups & Downs

The weather is warm today, but by the end of the month we could be facing snow again.  My allergies are in building up to full out assault.  Which leaves the rest of my body quickly following suit.  The allergies kill my breathing & upset my digestive system (the mild way of saying it).  They upset my sleep which leaves me tired & achy. I'll take my allergy pills on the really bad days, but not before that, cause the pills dry me out so bad I get nose bleeds.

My life is often I step up & two day, or two forward & three back.  I guess that's just life.  The fact is that it is damned annoying.  I get a little $ saved up & the car breaks down or the house needs repairs.  I guess I should just be thankful I'd had any $ saved up at all.  Life is like the road show above, but sometimes I'd really settle for a nice bit of flat, non curvy, uninteresting highway stretching before me

Allergies, finances & just about everything else in life are like a game of chutes & ladders (snakes if your British).  You keep trying just to plod forward, sometimes you luck out & get to take a short cut up, but most often you hit a snag & go sliding down, only to have to climb back up again.  How very Sisyphus.

The point I'm making is that there are definitely downs in this life, but there are also ups.  I'm not trying to belittle your pain or trials, but I am saying that things usually do eventually take a turn for the better.  So take your allergy pills & save up $ for those crappy car brake downs & accept that some rain is going to fall.  Hopefully you remembered your umbrella.